Definition of "azodicarbonamide" []

• An organic chemical, a yellow to orange red, odorless, crystalline powder, used in food industry as a food additive, a flour bleaching agent and improving agent and in foaming plastics. (noun)

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• "Once the chemistry of this change was understood, millers began using bleaching agents azodicarbonamide, peroxide to whiten flours."
• "However, worries about the potential toxicity of bromate residues in the late 1980s led most millers to replace bromate with ascorbic acid vitamin C or azodicarbonamide."
• "On the McDonald's website over a dozen ingredients are listed for a Big Mac bun including azodicarbonamide."